 Hey everyone, Dylan Schumacher, Citadel Defense, and we're back with another edition of Tactical Book Review. Today's book is U.S. Army Small Unit Tactics Handbook. And this is by Paul D. LaFavorre. LaFavorre, LaFavorre, I'm gonna go with LaFourre. So this is kind of, as it says on the cover here, it's kind of the Special Forces, Rangers, Airborne kind of thing. This is supposed to be for Special Forces units and kind of covering small unit tactics for those units, which as it turns out, aren't terribly different than small unit tactics for regular army or whatever. This book is copyrighted in 2015, so it's fairly recent. And this comes in five kind of main parts. The first part, the first like 150 pages is history, history of the Special Forces. Now, as a big fan of history, I did not find those pages particularly compelling. Personally, I love history, I love military history. I just, for whatever reason, the history pages in this book didn't jive with me. That's just me, it might be totally different for you, but it just wasn't connecting for me. But it goes through the history of the Special Forces and kind of how it comes from the OSS and the Raider Battalions and kind of all these different things that kind of pours into a Special Forces that starts to happen. So, if you're into that and you wanna know the deep histories behind the Special Forces units and stuff, this is good, this is good. The one part I did find extremely interesting about the history is he goes through all of the Medal of Honor winners, the Congressional Medal of Honor, for people that were in the Special Forces. I think there's like 27, if I remember right, ish of them, and it kind of gives their little citations of why they got the Medal and half of them are posthumously awarded. So, that was extremely interesting and inspired me to great thoughts and deeds of glory and I thought that was super helpful, super insightful. So, I would say, even if you skip the history, don't skip that part, read those. It's just amazing to read about these guys, acts of bravery and just how they were doing shit in the middle of the battlefield. So, would highly recommend reading those at the bare minimum. Other than that, if you feel like skipping the history, you know, that's up to you. Part two is doctrine, right? So, again, that's the doctrine of how they're gonna do stuff, what makes Special Forces, Special Forces, kind of stuff and there's some definitely stuff to glean from there. It covers leadership, tactics, stuff like that. Part three is planning, how you're gonna plan stuff. Part four is operations, how you're gonna actually do it. You know, you go here, we do this, this is how you cross the road, this is how you land navigate, this is how you set up patrol base, stuff like that. Then, part five, which is really short, is common skills and that's just like the barest mention of how to load and unload an M4 or machine gun or how to do basic tactical combat casualty care. I mean, stuff like that. So, that's it. This is a beefy book. It's like 400, almost 500 pages. So, you know, you're in for it but this is a really good book. Particularly, if you have read more of the introduction level books, like Small Unit Tactics by Max Velocity Tactical or Small Unit Tactics by Matthew Luke or Light Infantry Tactics by Christopher Larson. If you've read any of those books and you're kinda looking for the next level, I would recommend this book. It assumes you already know some basic concepts. So, if you don't already know some basic concepts, you might be a little lost at points in this book but assuming you do know those already and you wanna kinda go into, like I said, the next level, this book is for you. This'll be super helpful. The way they talk about leadership, the way they talk about tactics and the different battle drills and all that stuff, I think it's extremely helpful. So, I would recommend this, particularly if you've already read some other introductory books. I think it's a good read. I don't have too many bad things to say about this book. Like I said, the history to me was whatever. One of the bad things maybe is, I think there was a chapter on, I can't remember now, maybe it was Land Navigation but it was one of the most confusing chapters on Land Navigation I've ever read. But, by and large, highly recommended book, highly helpful. If you're interested in reading books about tactics and how to run units and stuff like that, I would recommend US Army Small Units Handbook by Paul D. Levoire. Paul, I apologize for butchering your name. Do brave deeds and endure.